United States v. Mefford

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating the weight and credibility of the evidence are not factors at the preliminary hearing stage
• “[a] prima facie case consists of evidence, read in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, that sufficiently establishes both the commission of a crime and that the accused is probably the perpetrator of that crime”
• “[a] prima facie case consists of evidence, read in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, that sufficiently establishes both the commission of a crime and that the accused is probably the perpetrator of that crime”
• “[a] prima facie case consists of evidence, read in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, that sufficiently establishes both the commission of a crime and that the accused is probably the perpetrator of that crime”
• requiring the court accept “inferences reasonably drawn from the record”
• requiring the court accept “inferences reasonably drawn from the record”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).